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Pierre Monteux, Maitre (Hardcover)
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Pierre Monteux, Maitre (Hardcover)
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Pierre Monteux became famous at the age of 38 for conducting the
riotous world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris
on May 29, 1913. The composer, fearing bodily harm, escaped through
a backstage window, while the imperturbable conductor persisted,
forever to be identified with the event. He would also conduct the
first concert performance and one of the first two recordings of
Stravinsky's masterpiece, the other one conducted by Stravinsky
himself. Though French by birth, the distinctively portly man with
the walrus mustache resisted being typecast as a French conductor.
He could have been a European maestro: he played for Brahms, worked
with Grieg, presided over the world premieres of major works by
Ravel, Stravinsky and many others, was Diaghilev's conductor of
choice. But it was Monteux's American audiences, especially in San
Francisco and Boston, who would love him the most over the course
of a long career. He conducted many American premieres, works of
Debussy, Falla, Ravel, and among the more than a dozen Boston
premieres, those of The Rite of Spring and of Mahler's First
Symphony. Canarina, a conductor and teacher of conducting himself,
studied with Monteux for seven summers and brings great personal
warmth and understanding to this wise, admiring and honest book,
the first full-length biography of the man whom so many knew and
loved as "Maitre."
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